Posted on 10/10/2012 2:39:57 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
This week, I will campaign for Gov. Mitt Romney. I believe this election will and should be about moving America back from the edge of the abyss on which we stand, where our debt and spending threaten to overwhelm and drown us. Romney's belief in free markets, limited government and trade make him the clear choice to lead our country come January.
I do not, however, support a call for intervention in Syria. And, if such intervention were being contemplated, it is absolutely necessary that Congress give any such authority to the president. No president, Republican or Democrat, has the unilateral power to take our nation to war without the authority of the legislature.
At times, I have been encouraged by Romney's foreign policy. I agree with his call to end the war in Afghanistan sooner rather than later and with his skepticism of, and call for reform in, foreign aid, but I am a bit dismayed by his foreign policy speech Monday, titled "Mantle of Leadership."
Sen. Rand PaulRomney chose to criticize President Obama for seeking to cut a bloated Defense Department and for not being bellicose enough in the Middle East, two assertions with which I cannot agree.
Defense and war spending has grown 137% since 2001. That kind of growth is not sustainable...
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Rand’s right.
Until they explode a nuke here. And they will.
Bankrupt nations can’t pay for a military structure larger than the rest of the non-bankrupt world combined.
peace through strength is the right idea. Peace through poverty, not so much. It is possible to be more efficient and not have a “wimpy” foreign policy. The idea that questioning a military budget alone makes you an appeaser is nonsensical.
The nut never falls very far from the tree.
Again, this is crazy. Their is no need to topple the Syrian government. Picking sides is a crazy policy in this case. At the very least fight on both sides and prolong the battle but picking a side and toppling the government is an absolutely horrid policy
Your opinion, I disagree. We can become energy independent and maintain a robust military both. That is not to say there is not waste. But I remember being at Fort Hood over 40 years ago and infantry units not shooting live rounds for a year at a time or being able to repair tanks that were dead lined because of budgetary considerations. This resulted in the fiasco in the desert under Carter after I had ets’d. Never again comes to mind.
This is the son of a man who blames the US for the attacks on 9/11 through “blowback.”
In reading Rand’s article it does offer a contradiction. If Romney can demonstrate to the Congress he is arming the right factions, then under Rand’s own criteria, this would be acceptable. I am not opposed to arming Rebels in Syria as long as they are friendly to the US and that they seize power after Assad is toppled. In fact, such a Regime would tilt the balance of power in the mid-east for 30 years. Then somehow, we need to get back into Iraq and contain the Shia as we did before Obama pulled out.
Just a republican doing a democrats work for them....Republicans need to shut up until after the election...This guy must love Obama, he’s in the wrong party...
Again, not one word has been mentioned so far of the jihad that is being weighed against America but it is only the economy that is continuously in the limelight.
Don’t these guys know that when sharia is established that all their economic planning is like p*ssing in the wind?
Yep. Which is why he will be ignored. For over a century, this country stayed out of everyone else’s business and it did, indeed, work. What some naively term isolationism is actually a wiser course than this silly police action mentality.
Rand Paul is no less of a loon than his drooling dad.
27 days before the election and this dipstick thinks it’s his turn to be heard.... he’s an idiot!
Rand Paul is no less of a loon than his drooling dad.
27 days before the election and this dipstick thinks it’s his turn to be heard.... he’s an idiot!
“Damning with faint praise”.
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He claims to be campaigning for Romney, yet he uses this opportunity to talk about his own opinions and beliefs. He's duplicitous.
Yup.
And for you spectators, there are no nuts in the Paul family tree.
Nonsense. The Afghanistan adventure has exhausted our troops and their families.
Nonsense. The Afghanistan adventure has exhausted our troops and their families.
It has trained them in the terrain and against the foes our nation will need them to fight. While overdeployment can be a problem, it simply means we need to recruit more troops. So far recruitment and retainment has not been a problem.
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